Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development

Download or read book Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development written by Dragan Gaševic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining a formal domain ontology is considered a useful, not to say necessary step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than with self-evident physical artefacts. However, this development step is hardly ever done, as ontologies rely on well-defined and semantically powerful AI concepts such as description logics or rule-based systems, and most software engineers are unfamiliar with these. This book fills this gap by covering the subject of MDA application for ontology development on the Semantic Web. The writing is technical yet clear, and is illustrated with examples. The book is supported by a website.